[Spacewalk-list] scheduled updates not being picked up

[John Hodrien]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Michiel van Es wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry for all my questions :)
> I want to upgrade the packages on my centos 5 clients but I they only stay in 
> the pending state under the scheduled tab.
> It looks like if they are not being picked up by the clients?
>
> How can I check what went wrong?
>
> The status in spacewalk:
>
> Summary:  	Package Install scheduled by admin
> Details: 	This action will be executed after 2008-07-17 13:51:00 CEST.
>
> This action's status is: Queued.
> This action has not yet been picked up.
> Packages Scheduled:
>
>    * bind-libs-9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2:30
>    * bluez-libs-3.7-1.1
>    * bluez-utils-3.7-2.2.el5.centos
>    * bind-utils-9.3.4-6.0.2.P1.el5_2:30
>    * Deployment_Guide-en-US-5.2-11.el5.centos
>
> Time: 	2008-07-17 13:50:05 CEST

Updates are done using pull by default.  If you want to force it, run
rhn_check on a client, and see what it does.  Otherwise, wait up to four hours
(the default).

jh

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